Mary Hoskins Coleman Biography

Mary Hoskins Coleman was born in Noxapater, Mississippi and graduated from Louisville Colored High School and attended Tougaloo College.  Mary graduated from Los Angeles Trade Technical College in 1968 and from Tougaloo College in 1970.  She grew up in Pleasant Ridge Missionary Baptist Church and held many positions in the church.  She did Advance Work for the White House while Jimmie Carter was President and is active in many social and civil organizations.  She was elected to the Mississippi House of Representative in 1993 and currently served as chair of the House Public Property Committee.  She also serves on the Appropriation, Banking and Finance, Transportation and Public Health Committees.  She served as President of the National Black Caucus of State Legislators from 2002 – 2006.

She is an active member of Cade Chapel Baptist Church, Jackson, Mississippi where serves as a Deaconess, Superintendent of Programs for the Sunday School and Communication and Printing Clerk for the church.  She is also the founder of the Young Adult Fellowship (now the Fellowship Choir).  She was recently appointed to the Board of  Directors of the Jackson Chamber of Commerce  and is now the Executive Director of the Women’s Auxiliary of the  General Missionary Baptist State Convention of Mississippi.
She is married to Casey Coleman and the mother of three children and one granddaughter.